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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD I. DAVIS, OF SANDUSKY, TEXAS.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,855, dated March 17, 1885.

Application filed May 12, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Brennan I. DAVIS, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Sandusky, in the county of Grayson and State of of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in sliding or rolling gates; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved gate. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, and Fig. 3 is asec tional view of the three pieces arranged to form a grooved bar.

The parallel bars A A A", forming the gate, are secured at each end to vertical standards B. These bars pass loosely between the main post 0 and standard D, by means of which the gate is held in an upright position. To the bar A is nailed or otherwise secured a strip, a, of the same length and thickness as said bar, and one-halfits width, and to this strip a, flush with its bottom edge,is secured another strip, 0, of the same dimensions as the bar A. Strips a and c, in combination with the bar A, form a continuous groove or channel. These parts fit loosely in the slots 6 in the posts 0 and E E. The bar A is held in contact with said (No model.)

posts by means of projections f, formed thereon. In each of theposts above named is journaled a roller, 1, upon which the strips a and 0 rest, whereby the gate is easily moved laterally in either direction. The bar A of the gate is provided with a series of perforations, n. The standard D on the main post 0 is also provided with a similar single perforation, whereby an opening of any desired size may be formed by sliding said gate back on its rollers and adjusting thepin F in the perforation of the standard Dand any one ofthe perforations of the bar A for the passage of large or small stock.

What I claim is The combination, with a gate, one of the rails whereof is about thrice as thick as the remainder of said rails, and is provided with a central groove along its upper face, of three supportingposts, each having a recess furnished with a roller in its lower part, upon which the aforesaid rail may travel, a tongue projecting from the upper edge of said recess into the groove of said rail, and an upright attached to the central post, so as to form a guide retaining the gate in an erect position, substantially as described.

RICHARD I. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

R. R. DIXON, THOS. W. RANDOLPH. 

